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Jul 18, 2005 | 09:09 PM

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goshawk23

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explain wireless to me. cause if you live in a dinky town, i might be able to get that where i live. problem with my neighborhood is when it was established 9 years ago, they didn't put cable underground and there are no powerlines overhead.

so i am stuck with direcway,

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:14 PM

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chevymec

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Wireless still requires internet in your house, or neighbors

. You just put a card in your laptop,in my case, and it is transmitted from a router at the main computer. Its kick a** to sit in the chair , and surf the net.

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:26 PM

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parish8

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cable modem here, i have seen over 4meg download a few times. usualy it is around 800K wich is still prety darn fast.

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:31 PM

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BADMOFO

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Originally Posted by parish8

cable modem here, i have seen over 4meg download a few times. usualy it is around 800K wich is still prety darn fast.

Comcast Cable for me too....Cable rules

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by chevymec

Wireless still requires internet in your house, or neighbors

. You just put a card in your laptop,in my case, and it is transmitted from a router at the main computer. Its kick a** to sit in the chair , and surf the net.

No, not the same thing. It similar, but on a MUCH bigger scale. There is a guy here in town that started up are WISP (Wireless Internet service provider). He has 2 T1 lines right now that are hooked into some antennas mounted on top of some grain towers and water towers and broadcasting antennas towers around town. Those antennas transmit to a modem on the side of my house and then there is a cat 5 wire into router in the house. Most big city have several WISP and there getting more popular in small rural areas because they can transmit 20-25 miles line of sight with the directional antennas. Do a search on the internet for WISP in your area on the internet and look in the phone book, you might find a company doing it there.

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:51 PM

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kbracing96

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Originally Posted by goshawk23

I really feel for ya, I had Direcway for 3 months and it suck, but better the dialup

. Been FAPed lately

Jul 18, 2005 | 09:59 PM

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Trotorx2

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Originally Posted by TnTrk53

Thanks for the info guys. Cable was out the last time because the line gets knocked down (less than 14' in the air crossing my road, it's not supose to be a truck route) and it takes months for repair. Also rural. The DSL may be my best shot ? No time for spelling check so take it easy on me chingon.

but reminds me of a funny story about a cable line. At work we live in mobile homes and at the old base the mechanics trailer was by the road. The cable tv line came down from the utility pole accross a shell drive along side the trailer. Well one morning we were watching tv before work and one of the oil company buses took the wrong entrance to the base and came along side our trailer. It caught the cable and pulled it along and while we were watching the tv all of a sudden the tv went flying along the wall and flew out the window we all just went

then started busting out laughting. Well...it was funny at the time.